Presentation at Europeana Plenary Conference in Leuven, Belgium, 13-15 June 2012

1. Innovation for Europeana
Europeana v2.0, WP7 – Innovation
Max Kaiser, Head R&D, Austrian National Library
June 13, 2012, Europeana Pre-Conference, Leuven

2. Welcome to the EuropeanaTech
Pre-Conference!
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3. Introduction to the
EuropeanaTech Agenda
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4. Europeana v2.0:
Goals of WP7 – Innovation
 Develop R&D community around Europeana
 Encourage thought and practical innovation from the
Europeana Network
 Build consensus on technical solutions
 Attract capacity for technical development
 Gather ideas for innovation
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5. Researchers
Domain Experts
Application Developers
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7. Europeana R&D Agenda for 2012
(Business Plan, section 2.4)
 Foster a network of specialists from GLAM & research institutions
• They can advice on technological topics when needed
• Build on earlier projects and workgroups
 Develop R&D agenda for Europeana
• Identify trends, gaps & key issues in crucial themes, who is working on
them, how Europeana can support them
 Feed R&D results from the scientific / open source community into
the development of Europeana
• E.g. translate relevant R&D results into reuquirements for Europeana
 Inform IT-related networks on Europeana-related R&D
• e.g. LOD community
 Improve and incrementally update EDM
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9. EuropeanaTech Community
EuropeanaTech community launched during the 2011
Europeana Network event in Rotterdam
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10. Mission
 Role of EuropeanaTech Research and Development
community built up around Europeana
 Expertise from the Europeana network & active collaboration
with stakeholder groups outside the Europeana network (e.g.
DPLA)
 Facilitate community to meet, innovate and undertake
research needed for the future of Europeana & the benefit of
the broad cultural heritage and research communities
 Gather task forces on specific technical points and foster a
Europeana Software Developers Network
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11. Tasks of Europeana v2.0 WP7 (Innovation)
1. Developers’ Network and FLOSS Inventory
• FLOSS: Free Libre Open Source Software
• Created by WP7, enriched by the EuropeanaTECH
community
• Focus on tools from/for the cultural heritage domain,
relevant for the Europeana network
• Included properties to asses the maturity and applicability
for Europeana related goals
2. Innovative applications for user interaction and
UGC
 Build consensus on technical solutions
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12. Tasks of Innovation WP
3. Semantic Web / Linked Data
 Tools for semantic extraction
 Social Semantic Web
 Model refinements for EDM
4. Multilingual Access / Translation
 Usability of multilingual access
 Development of user interaction models to guide and
maintain these processes for the Europeana portal and
beyond
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13. Achievements so far: FLOSS
Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain
 First iteration based on existing sources (Hack4Europe,
Europeana ThoughtLab)
 Publicly available as a working document on the
EuropeanaTech Wiki
 Edit rights can be obtained by contacting mbrinkerink [at]
beeldengeluid [dot] nl
!!! Active collaboration within the EuropeanaTech Network of
Developers is instrumental for improving the quality of this
inventory !!!
Have a look and contribute:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_7rVJwt0CpdFRJOEJxd
Ek4ZEMxQ01jaDgxQXFSTkE#gid=0
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14. Next Steps FLOSS:
Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain
 Active involvement of the EuropeanaTech Network to discuss
and improve the inventory
 Gap analysis of the FLOSS inventory for Europeana
 Improvement, refactoring and development of a number of
key applications
 Emphasis on innovative applications in the area of access
provision, user interaction and User Generated Content
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15. Achievements so far:
Semantic Web / Linked Data
Market study on technical options for semantic feature extraction
 Effective and efficient tools for the extraction of concepts and
named entities
 From digital text, audio resources and video resources
 Available on EuropeanaTECH Community Wiki
 Feedback to marlies.olensky(at)ibi.hu-berlin.de
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16. Next steps:
Semantic Web / Linked Data
 Make market study a “living document” on the Europeana
Tech Wiki
 Model refinements for EDM
• Include EuropeanaTech Network
• For example on EDM-FRBRoo-harmonization
 Social Semantic Web (task starting September 2012)
• Based on decisions what innovative applications for user
interaction and UCG will be developed (from the FLOSS-task)
• Use User Generated Content (UGC) for automatically
contextualizing information objects
• Enrich the Linked Open Data (LOD) space with named entities
and concepts that can be identified in the UGC
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17. Multilingual Access and Translations
Multilingual
user-driven  Automatically enhancing
data
content multilingually
 Complement the semantic
enrichment processes
Collaborative User
 Leverage collaborative features
features to interaction to improve translations & add
improve models
translations user-driven data in new
languages
 Development of user interaction
models to support these
Enhance
provider processes
content
multilingually
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18. Achievements so far:
Multilingual Access / Translation
 Analyzed 50 websites from cultural heritage domain
• Prevailing interaction patterns
• Search and browsing features
 Determined multilingual access features across these sites
 Aggregated collaborative and user-generated content
features, e.g.
• User exhibitions
• Story telling
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19. Next steps:
Multilingual Access / Translation
 State-of-the-art report about enhancing machine translation
through user-provided data and potential enrichment sources
for metadata
 Develop a staged model of multilingual metadata enrichment
 Develop user interaction models which support the
presentation of multilingual content
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20. Our agenda today
 R&D Mission Statement  Johan Oomen
 FLOSS Inventory  Maarten Brinkerink
 Semantic Web / Linked Data  Marlies Olensky
 Multilinguality  Julian Stiller
 (short break)
 Services and Solutions: ASSETS
 EDM cases: Polymath and MIMO
 Task Forces and Parallel Sessions
 Reporting back
 Discussion
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21. Thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
twitter.com/maxkaiser